We are proud to present
Twenty-Three: The Summer Poetry Issue
of No Contact

CHANGING MY PRONOUNS @ HOME DEPOT LOL
by grace (ge) gilbert
I want a little tool belt to signify
the intent of the Phallic

POEM TO BE READ FROM RIGHT TO LEFT
by Nada Faris
that dust the choose
veins my into life speaks

cruising (1980)
by Cameron Gorman
later, I hear someone say yolked, meaning not eggshells but
strong, or looking strong, which maybe is what we want


The Midway
by Lena Crown
i had a drink at the bar beneath a laser light show about the Beatles
on the ceiling, only Ringo was a crab playing the maracas.

a brief lamentation
by Flourish Joshua
people say happiness is free, as if to say we pay for grief.

The River in Egypt
by Sophia Noulas
Excuse me, for not creating right now,
I am building Moments.


to the insomniac in fool’s spring
by Sophie van Waardenberg
there was a time, friend, when it all looked so good.
the seeds had whorled up green in the window.
